Deputy Head of Quality Assurance within HIGHER EDUCATION
QA Higher Education, Birmingham OR Manchester OR London based
Hybrid & mainly at home working with ad hoc travel as required

Do you have experience within the education sector, ideally managing a small team and dealing with all aspects of OfS regulations (the Office for Students Regulator) and quality assurance matters.

About our role:  You will work closely with the Director of Quality Assurance. Our role is instrumental to ensuring adherence to the highest standards of educational excellence.
Collaborating closely with colleagues in the Quality & Academic Teams, our role entails developing and implementing robust quality assurance policies and procedures to uphold regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Through meticulous data analysis and reporting, the Deputy Head of Quality Assurance provides invaluable insights to drive continuous improvement initiatives across academic programmes, services, and processes. 
You will have sound knowledge on quality assurance matters, attending committee meetings, minute taking, following up agenda items related to various student matters. You will work closely with our university partners and awarding bodies not to mention advising internal teams on all relevant matters.   

Here’s some of what’s involved: (click through to view the full JD)
Gathering information; quantitative and qualitative data on a department, system or process and evaluating the performance against pre-determined criteria.
Assist with the development of QAHE’s Management and Governance arrangements in line with the OfS public interest governance principles.
Assist with the oversight of quality assurance procedures across QAHE’s university partners, including annual monitoring, responding to external examiners and student engagement.
Work with the Director of Quality Assurance on reviews with third party regulators e.g. OfS, QAA, BAC and BC.
Provide advice to staff on all matters relating to the maintenance and enhancement of academic quality and standards, including the OfS regulatory framework for quality and standards and the QAA Quality Code.
Deputising for the Director of Quality Assurance as required.

A little more about QA Higher Education: Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.
We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations. 

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Equal Opportunities

At QA, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

The successful candidate will be to undertake the DBS Check

We look forward to hearing from you!